Grant Cardone

We had food.

The one thing I think the one thing that has kind of saved me along the way is this divine discontent, never happy, never satisfied, always wanting to do better.

We had the things that everybody should be grateful of, that we should never take for granted.

But also with that, my mom was scared constantly.

This personal honesty, not cash register honesty.

I watched my mother terrified every day.

And by the time I was 15, I'm like, if this is the middle class, if this is a good thing, I don't want it because it doesn't feel good to me.

I'm talking about this personal honesty that I have about myself and about what I'm capable of doing, not by your standards, but by what I think I'm capable of.

So I told my mom when I was 15 in a moment of rebellious outrage, like a 15 year old that's angry and doesn't have his dad or his older brother anymore.

I'm like, I'm going to get rich one day.

I had no clue, by the way, how I was going to do this.

I'm going to be rich one day.

I told my mom, I'm going to be rich one day.

And when I am, I'm going to help a lot of people.

And that was really born out of this pain of this frustration of not having a dad and then hoping my uncles or somebody was going to step in and guide me.

Well, look, I was brought up in the middle class, like I referenced earlier, and my mom was really proud of that.

My dad died when I was 10.

My mom was extremely proud that they had made it into the middle class because they came from poverty.

And they didn't.

You know, they had their own lives and hands full and their own families.